Also known as: バケモノの子
バケモノの子 (Bakemono no Ko), The Boy and the Beast is a Japanese animated film directed by Mamoru Hosoda. It was released on July 11, 2015. The story is set in the human realm (Tokyo's Shibuya ward) and the bakemono realm ("Shibutenmachi"). In these two worlds which must not intersect, there lives a lonely boy and a lonely bakemono. One day, the boy gets lost in the bakemono world, becomes the disciple of the bakemono Kumatetsu, and is renamed Kyuuta.